be a patient these days

because I am receiving an orthodontic treatment in XieHe hospital which is located in HanKou district of WuHan, HuBei province, three of my teeth were extracted on Apr. 1st,2008. In that particular morning, I showed up myself in the orthodontic faculty on time, I wore contact lens instead of glasses, I wish to make myself looked healthy and then the dentists can give me a better operation. my dentist is professor Long,who is about at her 50s with a pair of benevolent eyes. When I met her first time in her office, I didn't know anyone and didn't know how to behave in that scenario,how to let them know I want to get my teeth treated, then I heard a women's voice ,"what can I do for you ?",I turned my head to the direction from which the voice came, professor Long was wearing a white face mask,most part of her face were covered by the face mask except her eyes, She reminded me one of my friend's mum. I didn't know the procedure of orthodontic treatment, I naively thought the main work of correcting my teeth could be finished in a single day, then what I need to do after that is just to return there once a month,and after two years ,my tilted teeth will be straightened and the crowded teeth will aligned beautifully . In reality, there were several important steps needed to be done first, which I ignored before I heard the dentists mentioned they will pulled out three of my teeth first during the course of discussion which was made above my head with my mouth opened now and then as their commands.
Professor Long told me that those three teeth should be extracted before Friday, and since she works on Monday and Wednesday regularly, after the teeth were extracted, I could come back on next Monday or Wednesday as my will. She prescribed her prescription and then gave me a rectangular stainless steel tray with tools for removing teeth in it, I received the metal tray and was led by her to a nearby office where my teeth would be extracted .
what happened next could not be forgotten easier . A middle-age male dentist would extract those teeth in that day, the first one was pulled out in the morning , then the dentist told me that I had better not have the rest two teeth pulled out that day, he said if I had enough free time, I should have only one tooth removed each time, otherwise I will be uncomfortable. but I let him know I haven't much free time available , I pleaded him to completed all the works in that day , he agreed and told me come back in the afternoon.
the rest teeth were pull out in that afternoon, the operation was not proceed smoothly, these two teeth refused to be pulled out easily, so I must endure lots of pains . hammer and tweezers were used before these teeth surrendered finally.
On Apr. 2, I went to the hospital again, and made my sixth teeth separated from other teeth, then professor Long set the date for the next operation, it will be Apr. 9th,just one week later.
I am waiting for the coming of Apr.9th, now I find there are problems for chewing , I am only able to eat conjee,pumpkin mud ,doufu , drink milk,juices , etc. I know the feeling of the old people who have no teeth when they try to eat something, the foods are there, tempting you , but you can not eat them normally. today is tomb-sweeping day in China, I am out of duty, and tomorrow is Saturday , the day after tomorrow is Sunday, so I have three days for recovery before I go to work on next Monday. I powered off my cell-phone for I am not able to speak very clearly and it's not good for me to speak too much now. I only sent short messages to Lulu to let her know my condition in case her confusion. I also want to explain the reason why I powered off my cell phone to my family, but in the end I didn't call them.it's OK, I think.